The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Subject:
Wisdom   
Character   
Source: Journals, 1839
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All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive.
Subject:
Politics   
Politicians   
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is a confession of character.
Subject:
Character   
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Reality is a sliding door.
Subject:
Reality   
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The only way to have friends is to be one.
Subject:
Friendship   
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All mankind love a lover.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Mankind   
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Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.
Subject:
Courage   
Mankind   
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
Subject:
Encouragement   
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Subject:
Friendship   
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God enters by a private door into every individual.
Subject:
God   
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He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Subject:
Love & Romance   
Source: Address on The Method of Nature, 1841
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The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Subject:
Friendship   
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Every principle is a war-note. Whoever attempts to carry out the rule of right and love and freedom must take his life in his hand.
Subject:
War   
Principle   
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Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Subject:
Quotations   
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Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.
Subject:
Manner   
Patience   
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Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.
Subject:
Capitalism   
Good   
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Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
Subject:
Action   
Human Nature   
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It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Subject:
Kindness   
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A man must consider what a rich realm he abdicates when he becomes a conformist.
Subject:
Life   
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Remarkable trait in the American Character is the union, not very infrequent, of Yankee cleverness with spiritualism.
Subject:
Americans   
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